Massachusetts House of Representatives' 20th Middlesex district
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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 20th Middlesex district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers parts of Essex County and Middlesex County.{{cite web |url=https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/eledist/reps11idx.htm |title=Massachusetts Representative Districts |access-date= April 28, 2020 |work=Sec.state.ma.us }} Republican Brad Jones of North Reading has represented the district since 2003.{{cite web |access-date= April 28, 2020 |work= PD43+ |author= Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division |url= https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/search/year_from:1970/year_to:2020/office_id:8/district_id:58810 |title= State Representative elections: 20th Middlesex district }}{{citation |title=Here Are The Contested Legislative Races In Massachusetts |date=October 29, 2020 |author=Steve Brown |url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/10/29/legislative-races-election-massachusetts-state-house |work=Wbur.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101150413/https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/10/29/legislative-races-election-massachusetts-state-house |archive-date= November 1, 2020 }}
Towns represented
The district includes the following localities:{{citation |url=https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2011/Chapter153 |title= Chapter 153. An Act Relative to Establishing Representative Districts in the General Court |work=Acts (2011) |author=Massachusetts General Court }}
- Lynnfield
- part of Middleton
- North Reading
- part of Reading
The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's 1st Essex and Middlesex district, 3rd Essex district, and 5th Middlesex district.{{Citation |url=https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/30/1848730/-How-do-counties-House-districts-and-legislative-districts-all-overlap-These-new-tools-show-you|author=David Jarman|work= How do counties, House districts, and legislative districts all overlap? |publisher=Daily Kos |date=July 30, 2019 |title= Upper legislative district ↔ lower legislative district correspondences: MA |quote= State House Districts to State Senate Districts }}
=Former locales=
The district previously covered:
Representatives
- John Sullivan Eaton, circa 1858 {{cite book |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/massachusettsreg1858bost/page/n21/mode/1up |title=Massachusetts Register |publisher=Adams, Sampson & Co. |location=Boston |year=1858 |chapter=Massachusetts House of Representatives |pages=10–12 }}
- Walter Littlefield, Jr., circa 1858
- Loren L. Fuller, circa 1859 {{cite book |url= https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge1859mass/page/200/mode/2up |title=Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Manual for the Use of the General Court |year= 1859 |location=Boston |via=Internet Archive }}
- J. Parker Gould, circa 1859
- George W. Trull, circa 1888 {{cite book |series= Official Gazette, Commonwealth of Massachusetts |title= 1888 State House Directory |editor=Geo. F. Andrews |publisher=Lakeview Press |chapter= Representatives: Middlesex County |chapter-url= https://archive.org/details/officialgazette1888andr/page/42/mode/2up }}
- Joseph L. Larson, circa 1920 {{cite book |title=Public Officials of Massachusetts: 1920 |publisher=Boston Review |url= https://archive.org/details/publicofficialso1920bost }}
- Willard P. Lombard, circa 1920
- Francis Thomas Gallagher, circa 1951 {{cite book |title=1951–1952 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |location= Boston |url= https://archive.org/stream/publicofficersof19511952bost }}
- Fred C. Harrington, circa 1951
- George Keverian, circa 1967
- Frederick N. Dello Russo, circa 1975 {{cite book |title=1975–1976 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |location= Boston |url= https://archive.org/stream/publicofficersof19751976bost }}
- Bradley H. Jones, Jr., 2003-current
See also
- List of Massachusetts House of Representatives elections
- List of Massachusetts General Courts
- List of former districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Other Middlesex County districts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 34th, 35th, 36th, 37th
Images
;Portraits of legislators
1908 Andrew Linscott Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Andrew Linscott
1908 James Killam Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|James Killam
1918 Fred Greenwood Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Fred Greenwood
1918 Howard Furness Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Howard Furness
1923 James Brown Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|James Brown
1923 Joseph Larson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Joseph Larson
1935 Albert Morris Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Albert Morris
1935 George Pierce Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|George Pierce
1945 Fred Harrington Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Fred Harrington
1945 Lawrence Davis Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Lawrence Davis
1953 William Joseph Brickley Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|William Joseph Brickley
1967 William Hogan Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|William Hogan
1967 George Keverian Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|George Keverian
1975 Frederick Dello Russo Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Frederick Dello Russo
1995 James Miceli Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|James Miceli
2003 Bradley Jones Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|Bradley Jones
References
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External links
- [https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_House_of_Representatives Ballotpedia]
- {{cite web |url= https://censusreporter.org/profiles/62000US25137-20th-middlesex-district-ma/ |title= 20th Middlesex District, MA |work= Censusreporter.org }} (State House district information based on U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey).
- [http://lwvnet.org/lwv/ma/tbm/index.html League of Women Voters of Topsfield-Boxford-Middleton]
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